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ERIC Number: EJ1426442
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 19
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ISSN: ISSN-1029-8457
EISSN: EISSN-1811-7295
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An Error Analysis of TVET Students' Responses to Optimisation Problems
Puleng Motseki; Kakoma Luneta
African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, v28 n1 p134-152 2024
Among the problems identified at Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) colleges, low achievement in mathematical subjects is the most prominent one. This paper documents a qualitative case study undertaken at TVET College in Gauteng with the purpose of exploring the National Certificate Vocational (NC(V)) Level 4 students' errors and associated misconceptions when answering optimisation questions in differential calculus. The participants were 60 students who were registered for a course in mathematics. Data were generated from the written student responses to two non-routine test items followed by interviews. Using the Newman error hierarchical model to analyse the data, it was discovered that students errors were conceptual and procedural as well as systematic and non-systematic. The literature also alluded to instructional approaches as some of the causes of students' misconceptions and the errors and that interventions should target students as well as the instructors.
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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